The Official Show-Your-Basses Thread [Part 4]

[J Posega]

Here's my humble collection of relatively cheap basses.

 

[prsbass]

That t-40 is sweet

 

[J Posega]

That t-40 is sweet

I was crazy enough to try selling it a while after I got it because I couldn't find a wrench for the truss rod and wouldn't pay $50 at the shop to have someone else do it. Luckily, I brought it back home from consignment at the store and found a wrench a couple weeks later. It's a '79, putting it 10 years older than me.

 

[Arlaman]

My -64 Fender Jazz RI.

 

[vene-nemesis]

Here's my humble collection of relatively cheap basses.

I like that corner stand where did you get it? whats its brand?

 

[tombowlus]

This is going to be covered in more detail elsewhere, but I have been working with Alan from AC Guitars on a bass for a long time. This bass was originally ordered with the idea that it would be a review item (for one magazine, or another ), and furthermore, we decided to track the whole process of ordering a custom instrument. This review will be published in March, but I wanted to at least give a shout-out to Alan and show off this baby a little bit:

Here are a few shots in some more controlled lighting:

The body shape is an amalgamation of some of Alan's designs (yeah, I can be difficult!), and the body is a spanish cedar core, with this crazy figured okoume top and back. The neck is made from flamed sycamore and macassar ebony. The fingerboard is flamed/spalted (acrylicized) maple. The pickups are custom ACG (made by Aaron Armstrong), and the preamp is a custom, filter-based pre made for ACG by John East. The switches control series/single/parallel coil tapping on each pickup.

I don't want to gush too much now, but let me say that I am very happy with this instrument!

Tom.

 

[Ben Lesser]

Wow, Tom.

The fingerboard and the top are insane!

 

[ExoticBehemoth]

Wow! That is a truly impressive instrument!

 

[J Posega]

I like that corner stand where did you get it? whats its brand?

It's a Warwick Rockstand... you can buy them for 3, 5 or 7-instruments, corner, straight, or some sort of collapsible ones nowadays. I think I got mine from Musiciansfriend.

 

[Funkdrawer4]

My new Ibanez Soundgear sr650bp-Burled Poplar

 

[matrok]

^ wow!

 

[the JT]

what are the controls on that AC fiver?

 

[tombowlus]

what are the controls on that AC fiver?

Vol/blend, filter (both the low pass filter point, as well as the 'harmonic emphasis') for the neck pickup, filter (both the low pass filter point, as well as the 'harmonic emphasis') for the bridge pickup, then the treble control (variable high pass filter, and treble boost). The switches control the coil tap on the pickups (series, single, or parallel).

 

[thebassguy]

Ibanez SR3000ESOL Prestige (with my GK 1001RB Mark II/400RB-III 2x10 Combo atop a GK GLX 15)
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And my brand new FBB Custom #G099 "High Five" Fretless Kaba, Grimace

This is the picture from Matt's archives...that's why there's no electronics yet.

 

[ysand]

My new baby, a Spector Rebop 5 zebrano

Waiting for my spector club number in that thread too

 

[Cebe]

Fender P Bass 1978.

 

[waseok]

Cool P bass, but the pickguard sucks, sorry

 

[vistacruiser]

I think what he's trying to say is, that P-bass is deserving of a Tortoise pickguard. Or at least a pearloid.
Its a beautiful 70's bass and I think it would look awsome!

 

[joelb79]

I wouldn't mod a 78. Its appreciating, and mods depreciate the price.

 

[prsbass]

I prefer the white over tort on a clear ash body. That's the way they came that's way should stay IMO.